| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Treaty of Versailles | A treaty signed at the end of world war 1 that ended the state of war inbetween Germany and the rest of the world. |
| Mao Zedong | Mao led the communist party of china to win against the Kuomintang in the Chinese Civil War |
| V.I. Lenin | A political party practicing the ideas of Karl Marx and V.I Lenin originally the russian Bolshevik Party |
| Communist Party | A political party practicing the ideas of Karl Marx and V.I Lenin originally the russian Bolshevik |
| Fascism | A radical and authoritarian nationalist political thinking. Fascism can also be a corporatist economic ideology. |
| Great Depression | Was a world wide economic turn down |
| Benito Mussolini | Italian politician who led the National Fascist Party, credited for being one the ones in the creation of Fascism. |
| Chaing Kai Sheck (Jiang Jieshi) | a political and military leader of 20th century China |
| Bolshevieks | A group of revolutionary russian Marxists who took control of Russia's government in november 1917 |
| Sun Yixian | Overthrew the Qing Dynasty. He was the first president when the Republic of China was founded in 1912 |
| Kristalnacht | was an anit jewish group in Nazi Germany |
| Adolph Hitler | an Austrian born German politician and leader of Germany; and a bad one at that |
| Joseph Stalin | General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee, become the leader of the Soviet Union. |
| Axis Powers | In World War II the narions of germany italy and japan which had formed an alliance in 1936 |
| Nonaggression pact | An international treaty of two or more states agreeing to avoid war and resolve their conflicts through peace. |
| Winston Churchill | A british politician known for his leadership during world war 2 |
| Holocaust | genocide of about six million Jews during World War II |
| Nuremberg Trials | series of trials for prosecution of members of political, military, economic leadership of Nazi's after WWII. |
| blitzkrieg | "Lightning war" an form of warfare in which surprise attacks with fast moving airplanes are followed by massive attack with infantry forces |
| Pearl Harbor | Located in Honolulu Oahu. Bombed by the Japanese on Dec. 7 1941, which got the US involved in WWII |
| Third Reich | The name of Germany when it was being led by Hitler as Nazi Germnay |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | The 34th President of the United States from 1953-1961, a five star general in the Army |
| Battle of Britain | name given to the sustained strategic effort by German Air Force to gain air superiority over the Royal Air Force |
| "Final Solution" | Hitlers program of systematically killing the entire Jewish people |
| D-Day | Lasted 1 day on June 6, 1944. American, British and Canadian troops stormed Germany to try to defeat them |
| isolationism | When a country refuses to make friends or accept help or make deals or allies |
| Iron Curtain | physical boundary dividing Europe in two separate areas from the end of World War II |
| Berlin Airlift | "German hold-up" first cold war international crisis that resulted in a casualty. |
| Hydrogen Bomb | A powerful bomb whose destructive power comes from the rapid release of energy during the nuclear fusion of isotopes of hydrogen |
| Mutually Assured Destruction | A doctrine that stated if two opposing sides used Nuclear weapons, they would both be destroyed. |
| Cold War | a continuting state of conflict and tension inbetween the western powers and the soviet union |
| NATO | A military alliance established by signing the North Atlantic Treaty on 4 April 1949. |
| Marshall Plan | Primary plan of the United States for rebuilding and creating a stronger foundation for Western Europe country's |
| Warsaw Pact | A military alliance formed in 1955 by the solviet union and seven Eastern European countries |
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